Dear Skiboards.com,

First, I visited your web site because I rode the lift at Bristol Mountain (New York State) with a skiboarder who raved about the site. (He bought Alpina's from you and raved about the twenty minutes of attention he got from your staff).

Second, as a veteran professional web designer, kudos on a fast-downloading, easy-to-navigate, content-rich web site. It is one of the better sporting good 'e-stores' on the web... I will order from you due to quality of site, pricing, and product lines.

Third, I have to add a testimonial, of sorts, to those already offered by former, conventional skiers:

I have been skiing since age three, have been a part-time and full-time ski instructor at different times, from age fourteen to age forty-six. Today, at age fifty-one, I rented a pair of Salomon SnowBlades at Bristol Mountain, out of curiosity...

Back in the early Sixties, Cliff Taylor popularized 'shortee skiis' (and there was also, later, an instuctional system, the Graduated Length Method, or GLM, that began with beginners on short boards). Other than the pure novelty of radically short skiis, even hybrids that were double-tipped, they were singularly unimportant in a world where it was often the case that the longer the ski, the better the skier... 210/215cm's were marks of prowess. So, my experience on short boards was limited to playing on 'shortees skiis'.

I had the most exhilarating day on snow, in six years, on the Salomon SnowBlades. Awesome experience carving tight corners, laying out long, tight tracks of eight or twelve fast 360's, riding one-legged with great carving ability for a whole run, pushing them fast, and off the wall. After forty-eight years on those long, excrutiatingly expensive skiis - $1200 for skiis and bindings! - I'm converting to skiboards. Done Deal. Don't look back (actually, do look back... because it's so much easier to ski backwards on ski boards than skiis).

Skiboards are phenomenal - and I've only demo'd one pair of rentals for one day - and I can't wait to be out in the bumps and getting some air and having tools on my body fit for a terrain park. While I'll have to demo some, to decide on Width, Length, Etc. (for the price, Hey, get Two Pair, for less than one pair of long boards), I'm gone. They are a whole different, exhilarating experience. Like being on a road bike and then discovering mountain bikes ... like decaf versus double espresso ... hey, when I get my headphones and my tunes and my board... awesome experience!!!

I had to tell someone! I'm not a writer of testimonials... but the experience is an awesome legal high. Anyway, your site gets rave reviews. I'll be buying from you as soon as I test more boards. And, if you guys have a t-shirt or baseball cap, I'll wear it with pride. What a sport!!!

Cheers,
David,
Age: 51

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